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¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
It is often said, that German historical science was interested in cultural historical studies only after the 1970^<th> years. Social and cultural historical studies, which aim at trends of social classes and lives of common people, come to the fore, at the cost of that description of historical events, that confines itself to lives of great men and epochmaking events. The concept of culture, that was synonymous with famous art and literature, expands its meaning to the extent, that it is understood as a whole way of life of a distinct people or a social group such as various classes. Also German historical textbooks reflected such a paradigm change of historical studies and were renewed along the editorial line of cultural history. It is a general concept on a turning point of German historical studies and teaching. But at least the latter had experienced a cultural historical turn in even former times.
My research on German historical textbooks indicates, that they were influenced by
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cultural historical studies of a historian Karl Lamprecht in Leipzig and were characteristic of an approach to the cultural history already in the turn of the earlier century. In order to give evidence of this thesis, I have observed a change of illustrations published in historical textbooks. Not least illustratios were published even in textbooks before the 1890^<th>, when Lamprecht laid stress on an importance of cultural history. They were portraits of great men and dynastic families and illustrations of famous events such as wars. They were employed, in order to wake up patriotism on the one hand and to let pupils memorize matters of facts on the other hand. While cultural historical illustrations, which were not combined with distinct persons and events, increased rapid after the 1890^<th>. They were ones of tools and technology, houses and settlements, customs and lifestyles, etc. Of course descriptions of textbooks changed accordingly. One considered it to be more important, to understand a trend of history, not only to memorize names, years and events.
I held a public lecture on my outcome at 18. 09. 2006. in the schoolmuseum in Leipzig. I was asked to give a contribution of it to the yearbook of Karl Lamprecht Society. I write now it. Less
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